Article updated: 11/30/2012 5:10 PM

Families want workers held in Elk Grove raid released

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Sylvia Guerrero of Chicago wants authorities to release on bond her husband, Moises Torres, 64, and son Omar Torres, 31, who were rounded up during an immigration raid Thursday at an Elk Grove Village factory.

Madhu Krishnamurthy | Staff Photographer

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Sylvia Guerrero makes a plea to immigration authorities to release her husband and son who were caught in a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid Thursday at an Elk Grove Village factory. Members of the Our Lady of Guadalupe Anglican Mission in Chicago, led by Rev. Jose Landaverde, and immigrant advocates spoke against raids and deportations during a rally Friday morning outside the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Chicago office.

Madhu Krishnamurthy | Staff Photographer

The Chicago Pallet Service Inc. building in Elk Grove Village was raided Thursday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and 34 workers were rounded up, according to a group that rallied to protest the raid.

Mark Welsh | Staff Photographer

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Our Lady of Guadalupe Anglican Mission is calling a press conference to denounce the raid that occurred in The Chicago Palette Company, located in Elk Grove Village, IL. We denounce that Homeland Security and the President Obama Administration arrested about 34 people on Thursday November 29, 2012. We are calling a press conference at the Homeland Security headquarters demanding them to release Moises Torres, Omar Torres and other detainees with ICE bond. Ixtel Torres, 5 years old, is demanding the Homeland Security to be reunited with her father.